Blog Posts tagged with : Climate change
Pushing Past 400
Posted by on May 15, 2013Sometime in the last week, the world pushed past 400 parts per million (ppm). That is, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - the primary driver of global warming - now exceeds 400 (ppm). Given that carbon stays in the atmosphere for thousands of years, passing a marker has an air of finality about it. So how fatal is our case?The earth was ...
Clear and Clean Thinking on Asia’s Economic Future
Posted by on Apr 11, 2013The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has just published its economic outlook for 2013 – and it makes for sobering reading indeed.The economics are rosy enough: going by conventional “more is better” measures of GDP growth. “Developing Asia is bouncing back” the Report states, with GDP growth growing from 6.1 per cent in 2012 to 6.6 per cent in 2013 and...
What Would American Progress on Climate Change Look Like?
Posted by on Mar 28, 2013If the right of a great power is that it doesn’t need to follow a global consensus, the US has played that role masterfully in the past half century. America has preserved an exceptionalism on any number of issues – such as its failure to ratify the UN International Covenant on Human Rights, its defense of the state’s right to teach evolution as scienc...
Can Business Work in Support of Science?
Posted by on Jan 25, 2013In a recent Fung Global Institute breakfast briefing on “Climate Science for Laymen”, affiliate Peter Cox from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid bare his wish for business to be more involved in finding solutions to climate change. “We know that climate change is happening, and we know that human activity is part of the cause”...
Time for some clear – and clean – thinking on the South China Sea
Posted by on Dec 06, 2012Tempers are running very high in East Asia recently, due to a body of water that is, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere, or in the centre of it all. The South China Sea is claimed in varying portions by China, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, and Taiwan. China claims around 90 per cent, ditto for Vietnam and the Philippines. This is a long-...
